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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1913
Page
9
Jacksonville scouts set the first week in August for a citywide cleanup under a board of trade committee led by H. B. Race. Public works will supply rakes and tools as troops are assigned districts to clean, with each scout wearing a badge reading Jacksonville's clean city campaign.
France’s Salmon Faverolle is attracting American fanciers with its snowy plumage deep breast and muffed head. The bird lays yellow eggs most of the year and yields fine meat. A dispute exists over whether they should have four bare toes or feathered five, with English favoring feathered shanks.
Samuel Greenbaum, an importer, sues Miss Leah Scher, a music teacher, for 5250 claiming damages to heart and purse after engagements in 1912 and a South American trip. He alleges she fled his affection and he was mugged by heartbreak leading to a Harlem police court appearance.
Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 5 physicians in charge report few patients remaining in five provisional field hospitals run by the government. They say by tomorrow's departure of the last train the remaining patients should be sufficiently recovered to go home at the emergency state hospital in Gettysburg town.
John W. NisBeth, 40, Bevier merchant and reform activist, is held on $3,000 bond in Macon Mo for allegedly administering a drug to stenographer Merle Drinkard who died Thursday. Drinkard named a man in her dying statement. NisBeth says arrest stems from local option foes and will submit to full investigation. He and Drinkard were both Bevier Baptist Church members with two years’ service for NisBeth.
Announcement declares a bid for City of Mo bile Commissioner at the election set for the first Monday in September 1913 and respectfully seeks voters' support.
Mrs. F G Black was attacked at about 10 30 p m near Sixteenth and Main while returning home. The robber grabbed her satchel containing about 12 dollars and valuables but she clung to it. he fled dropping the bag as police and sheriff investigators recovered some money. Detective Cahoon and Deputy Crawford pursued the case noting Mrs Black's courage.
Dr H Dana Newkirk heads a Minneapolis program that performs corrective surgeries on delinquents as part of juvenile court work. In 1912 the clinic reported 154 operations from brain surgery to tonsil removal and plans future work with the Boys' Club of Minneapolis. A former chronic truant whose appendix was removed improved markedly, gaining weight and returning to regular school attendance. The league lists 837 members in the boys' club with 62 foreign born members and 46 foreign-born parents’ sons.
New York July 5. The second part of a romance began in Forest Park Pa last summer when a girl in a canoe was saved from drowning. Miss Florence E Landauer and A K Jacobson stock broker wed at Mestotres Hotels Miss Landauer’s mother Mrs M Landauer attended. They traveled to Atlantic City after the ceremony and plan to return to Forest Park lake later in the summer.
A car plunged over a twenty foot embankment in the mountains near Chattanooga late last night. One man Will Perkins 26 was killed from a broken neck. Charley Galloway the driver had a broken arm and internal injuries. Mrs. Cobb and Tom Howide sustained internal injuries and hip sprains. Perkins and Howide were fishing and invited to ride. Perkins leaves four children.
In Piedmont West Virginia near Mountaindale George Enser a local businessman was attacked by more than a dozen snakes four to six feet long while trout fishing. He rolled down a hill into a fire he had built to warm his breakfast, escaping with injuries.
Enser sustained severe burns to his body arms and face after clothing caught fire. He ran to a trout stream and threw himself into the water to extinguish the flames and save himself.
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